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Hardrive Fulling Up

posted earlier about this but didnt get any response...I dont think I had email notification checked..

anyway my C: drive keeps filling up. Right now I have 0MB available. I continually delete software to make room but within hours even 200MB is used up...I have run Trend-micro internet security 2007, housecall, Hijackthis 2x and ad-aware SE. Nothing has come up.

Have a look at which folders take up the most space. Usually uncontrollable loss of disk space is due to one of two things. Either it's a worm replicating, or you are using some P2P app and downloading stuff in the background. Have you run disk cleanup?

I would be inclined to think there's an infection though. If you are proficient, I'd assume you know how much space you're supposed to have. Windows will not run nicely with anything less than 15% free space, so you have quite an urgent problem on your hands. I suggest you look into what is taking up that space soon. I'd be really interested in seeing the Hijack This log, are you absolutely sure it was all clean?

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This is a very debatable subject, but system restore can eat a lot of your hard drive space, many swear by it, I don't use it myself. I did have it turned on for service pack 3. It seems that newer malware has found better uses for it tho.
The first thing it does is erase all the good restore points and then make a new one backing itself up.

You might want to set a new restore point then delete the older ones with advanced disk cleanup and then run defrag again